tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post6304092269416142798..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: Some favorite books in honor of Women's History MonthPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-66674986770375324932015-03-23T12:50:41.903-06:002015-03-23T12:50:41.903-06:00I echo Anthony's choice of Radical Spirits and...I echo Anthony's choice of Radical Spirits and I'll add A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Ulrich. In that book, Ulrich reconstructs life in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth Hallowell in full technicolor. She weaves the social history of the area with gender history, religious history, cultural history and presents a complex and detailed micro-history of Ballard’s life and context. <br />Ballard’s diary—and Ulrich’s expansion upon the excerpts—depict a world where the male and female spheres were separate and run by their respective genders but also overlapped. A Midwife's Tale also has a great exploration of New England premarital sex and marriage norms.esclarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02794977716560232353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-81488905853529342502015-03-23T12:46:24.884-06:002015-03-23T12:46:24.884-06:00Perhaps Mama Lola is coming to mind so sharply bec...Perhaps Mama Lola is coming to mind so sharply because of Karen McCarthy Brown's recent death, but it was certainly a formative book in my own education and one that I would love an opportunity to teach. It provides so very much conversational fodder, about ethnographic method, religious practice that makes students uncomfortable, and, of course gender. It offers insightful analysis of gender and embodiment, gender and authority.Samira K. Mehtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01856123420355764896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-19503046659197041492015-03-22T10:24:21.805-06:002015-03-22T10:24:21.805-06:00Thanks Anthony! I wholeheartedly agree about both ...Thanks Anthony! I wholeheartedly agree about both books.Carol Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00319958735077361375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-6026131081210773422015-03-22T09:00:49.756-06:002015-03-22T09:00:49.756-06:00This is great! I love reading about these books.
...This is great! I love reading about these books. <br /><br />One of my favorites is Ann Braude's Radical Spirits, which, in addition to being beautifully written, brought the history of religious women to fore of the scholarship on the women's movement and feminist politics. I also love Bruce Dorsey's Reforming Men and Women, for the way it brings race, ethnicity, class, and age into the history of women and gender. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01057837383151039398noreply@blogger.com